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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds






2. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program






3. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.






4. Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder - longer - and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.






5. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






6. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading






7. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






8. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together






9. A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar - er - ir - or - us - qu - wh)






10. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example






11. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.






12. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction






13. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






14. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.






15. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






16. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.






17. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with

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18. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.






19. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia






20. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






21. 1925 - Coined the term "strephosymbolia" which means twisted symbols; Pathologist - neurologist and psychitrist in the US - studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany - work influenced by James Hinshelwood






22. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale






23. The process of systematically gathering test scores and related data in order to make judgement about an individuals ability to perform various mental activities involved in the processing - acquisition - retention - conceptualization - and organizat






24. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






25. Provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge back to you. The changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or a test.






26. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!






27. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






28. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy






29. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound






30. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun






31. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.






32. A test in which the results can be used to determine a student's progress toward mastery of a content area. performance is compared to an expected level of mastery in a content area rather that to other student's scores. Such tests usually include qu






33. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.






34. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness






35. Academic Language Therapy Association






36. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)






37. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words






38. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)






39. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time






40. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy






41. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag






42. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






43. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.






44. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.






45. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.






46. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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47. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






48. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet






49. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928






50. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.







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